Importing files: Some file types (.tex, .odt) only show up under "All files"

[David Johnson]

I also cannot reproduce this, on an Ubuntu machine.  All the *.tex files
show up.

On Mon, Feb 24, 2020 at 5:32 PM Paul A. Rubin <parubin73 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 2/24/20 3:12 PM, Tobias Hilbricht wrote:
> > Dear readers of this list,
> > I am using LyX 2.3.4.2 on Ubuntu 18.04.4 and have the following issue:
> > When clicking File -> Import File -> LaTeX (plain), a window pops up
> > allowing to choose a LaTeX.tex file. However, when navigating to a
> > folder which contains LaTeX.tex files and the menu just above the
> > button "Open" says "LaTeX", no file at all shows up. When changing the
> > menu button to "All Files" all files are shown. The same is true for
> > OpenDocument.odt files - they do not show up specifically when the menu
> > says "OpenDocument", but only among many others, which lengthens the
> > process of file choosing.
> >
> > By contrast, when trying to import HTML, the menu just above the "Open"
> > button reads "HTML", and all HTML-files in the folder are shown; it
> > works as expected for OpenDocument spreadsheets (ods), too, and for MS-
> > Word Office-Open XML (docx).
> >
> > Is this a local malconfiguration - if so, how can I reconfigure my
> > system properly - or is this a bug?
> >
> > Thanks for helpful hints
> > Tobias Hilbricht
> >
> I am unable to reproduce this with LyX 2.3.4.2 on Linux Mint 18.3 (which
> is Ubuntu-based). Can you post a screen shot, like the attached, of the
> file open dialog when it malfunctions?
>
> Paul
>
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David L. Johnson
Department of Mathematics
Lehigh University
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